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The Critical Role of Gut Health in Patient Outcomes: Human Milk Oligosaccharides 

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12 months

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Online Webinar

Duration

1.5 hours

Presenter

Rocco Di Vincenzo

Rocco will emphasise the importance of an evidence-based, patient-centred, strategic, and holistic approach to nutritional management, illustrated through two complex case studies focused on optimising gut health using dietary and nutritional supplementation.
  • Case Study 1: A complex paediatric case involving a patient with Anorexia Nervosa, showcasing the importance of adaptability and the value of a conventional-integrative dietetics model in optimising health outcomes.
  • Case Study 2: An adult case involving a patient suffering from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), IBS, GAD, major depression, and PTSD due to perceived medical bullying, highlighting the value of a collaborative functional integrative model with a government agency (Salvation Army).

Rocco will highlight the importance of tailoring interventions to individual patients and the role of the gut-brain axis in overall health and well-being. He will delve into the strategies used to support and optimise gut health in these patients, demonstrating the resulting broad range of health improvements.

Key points will include the role of prebiotics (particularly Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMO)) and probiotics from food and supplements in enhancing gastrointestinal microbiome diversity and achieving health outcomes. The presentation will be practical and evidence-based, providing a deeper understanding of Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) for optimising patient health.

Join Rocco Di Vincenzo in ‘The Critical Role of Gut Health in Patient Outcomes: Human Milk Oligosaccharides and Their Potential Role in Optimizing Health Outcomes Over the Lifecycle.’

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Rocco Di Vincenzo

BSc, MND, PGrad Dip. App. Sci, PGrad Dip. Bot. Med. APD 
Rocco Di Vincenzo is a Consultant Dietitian who has a strong integrative functional nutritional and environmental medicine focus in his private practice and has formal qualifications in this area. Rocco’s focus is on multidisciplinary, holistic, individually tailored, patient-centred nutrition intervention programs and the justifiable, evidence-based, systematic, strategic, purposeful use of pharmaceutical grade, practitioner only nutritional supplements to work in conjunction with GP/Specialist prescribed pharmaceuticals as a treatment adjunct in helping treat the cause of disease and alleviation of patient symptomatology. Rocco has a special interest in addressing gastrointestinal and liver dysfunction and disorders (including NASH/NAFLD), neurological disorders such as depression/anxiety, neuropsychiatric disorders including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), autoimmune disorders and metabolic syndrome.

He worked as a Community Senior Dietitian for over a decade and was the Swinburne University Hospital Chief Dietitian, the first Integrative Hospital in the Southern Hemisphere. Rocco has completed a Bachelor of Science (Monash University), a Masters in Human Nutrition and Dietetics (Deakin University), a Postgraduate Diploma in Nutritional and Environmental Medicine at the Graduate School of Integrative Medicine (GSIM – Swinburne University) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Botanical Medicine at Newcastle University. As a result of his training and experience, Rocco is a strong advocate of community development and health promotion principles recognising that failure to invest in social infrastructure to help build healthy communities significantly encourages disease development and progression.

In an effort to improve wider nutritional understanding and empower communities, Rocco has created group nutrition education programs offering supermarket shopping tours, and presentations on a range of health topics of particular community interest enabling individuals to make informed decisions pertaining to their own health. Rocco has a strong social and philanthropic sense and has committed to pro bono consultations for those in need, particularly children in local communities that do not have the means to be able to access evidence-based complementary healthcare assistance.Rocco also provides consultations in fluent Italian.Rocco also established the first Dietitians in Integrative Functional Nutritional and Environmental Discussion Group for APDs in Australia. The group is now known as the Advanced Medical Nutrition Education Centre (AMNEC) and is convened in conjunction with Associate Professor Antigone Kouris (APD). The group originally sought to support, and guide interested Dietitians in this emerging area of advanced nutritional medicine and provide them with a supportive base from which they can then go onto explore for themselves via accredited institutions post graduate training to confidently develop skills and expertise in this area.